Codecademy (a Skillsoft company)
New York, NY

Senior Backend Engineer - Curriculum Platform Team

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Codecademy has helped over 45 million people learn to code. Join one of the most exciting technology companies in New York that is changing the way we learn.

Millennials are highly-educated, tech-literate, and mission-driven. Yet seven years after the great recession ended, nearly half of young university grads are underemployed, meaning they aren’t working jobs that require a degree. And the situation has only recently begun to improve. This year US students will graduate with $37,000 in debt, only to accept unpaid internships and part-time jobs.


Meanwhile, software is eating the world, disrupting first media, publishing, and entertainment, and now food, transportation, and travel, creating millions of new technology jobs that companies are eager to fill. By 2020 there will be a shortage of 1 million more tech jobs than computer science grads.


We can be the bridge. We can help this generation gain the skill to fill these jobs and enjoy happier, more fulfilling careers.


Join us.


The Curriculum Platform Team’s primary purpose is to support the needs of Codecademy’s Curriculum Developers and the content they produce. This includes everything from developing and improving content authoring tools, to introducing new interactions to the Codecademy learning environment. Our job is to improve how we teach and support our continued expansion into new technical domains. Additionally, our work involves storing and presenting all content to the learning environment and maintaining our learner code evaluation platform.

What You'll Do

  • Work on the code evaluation engine that parses and evaluates code samples submitted by our learners, millions of times every single day.
  • Help design and develop our evolving content schema enabling higher touch learning experiences for our users.
  • Collaborate with the Learner Experience and Curriculum Development teams to develop content API’s that make it easy to produce and consume various types of learning content.
  • Build premier testing frameworks that automate code and lesson evaluation enabling the accelerated development and launching of content on the platform.
  • Manage and improve our cluster that spawns over 20,000 Docker containers a day.
  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.

What You'll Need

  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience developing server side web applications across multiple stacks. We use Ruby on Rails so that's preferred.
  • Experience building software used by hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
  • A strong depth of knowledge around architecture concepts including MVC, RESTful APIs, OOP, caching strategies
  • You've played an integral part in refactoring to microservice architecture before.
  • Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases. We currently use a combination of Postgres, MongoDB, and Amazon Redshift.
  • Experience with containerization technology (Docker, openVZ, lxc, etc.)

What Will Make You Stand Out

  • Experience with ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, and Redis
  • Experience authoring services in Go
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or engineering

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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What are Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Perks + Benefits

Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Benefits Overview

In addition to base pay, paid holidays, equity packages, and generous health benefits:

We offer a $50 monthly stipend for use towards gym memberships, fitness classes, meditation, massages.
We offer a subsidy on Citi Bike memberships--don't just work in the city, see the city! Pre-tax commuter benefits.
We offer $1,000 a year towards education and growth to be used towards conferences, certifications, or any other opportunities to learn!
Catered lunch (Tuesday through Thursday in office) and a fully-stocked kitchen
Up to $75/month internet stipend when remote.
GrubHub+ Membership
401k account through Human Interest
OneMedical account for primary care
Codecademy Pro account
Unlimited vacation policy: We encourage (and sometimes demand!) that employees take vacation time to rest and reboot.

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available

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